Environment Secretary Steve Reed confronted by farmers
Thousands of farmers will descend onto London later this afternoon in protest against Rachel Reeves’s inhertance tax raid.
Tractors are expected to come into the Capital in convoy ahead of speeches at 3pm opposite Downing Street.
Demonstrations in recent months have attempted to show the Government how concerned rural communities are about changes announced at October’s budget.
Labour’s plans to impose 20% inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1 million – or £3 million in some circumstances.
Bur farmers have warned this threatens the nation’s food security as many would have to sell land to afford the tax bill.
The Daily Express’s Save Britain’s Family Farms has demanded a U-turn.
Countryfile’s Adam Henson warns Rachel Reeves’s changes ‘hurts’
Countryfile star Adam Henson has warned Rachel Reeves her inheritance tax raid “hurts” British farming.
The BBC presenter, 59, urged the Chancellor to “soften the blow” of her Budget by considering other “simple” alternatives.
Read the full story here.
Farmers ‘fighting to save their livelihoods’, Countryside Alliance says
Rachel Reeves must rethink her “ruinous” proposal before it is too late, campaigners say.
Mo Metcalf-Fisher, external affairs director for the Countryside Alliance, said: “It is difficult to find a Government policy that has prompted such wide-spread concern than that of Rachel Reeves’s disastrous family farm tax. Farmers want to get on with producing food for us to eat while maintaining the countryside we all know and love. Instead they are having to fight to save their livelihoods. The total breakdown between Whitehall and the countryside hurts the whole country. We are in London today to urge Rachel Reeves to see sense and rethink her ruinous proposals before it’s too late”.
Nigel Farage launches furious attack on Labour’s tax raid
Nigel Farage launched a furious attack on Labour’s nightmare inheritance tax raid on farmers as he backed the Daily Express crusade to protect rural communities.
The Reform UK leader will join tens of thousands of farmers on Monday in a mass “rural revolt”.
Read the story here.
Farmers prepare to hear Nigel Farage address family farm tax
Farmers are gearing up to hear Nigel Farage speak at a dawn rally in London.
Farmers posing with placards at dawn rally (Image: Daily Express)
Nigel Farage to speak at farmer rally
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is expected to speak to farmers ahead of their protest in Central London.
The politician wrote about the issue in today’s Express.
Farmers rallying in North London (Image: Daily Express)
Why are farming protests taking place today?
The tractor rally on Monday, organised by Save British Farming, comes as MPs debate an e-petition with more than 148,000 signatures calling to keep the current inheritance tax exemptions for working farms.
Labour has insisted it will not make a U-turn on its plans to introduce a 20% inheritance tax rate on farms worth more than £1 million.
The changes announced in the Budget are due to come into force in April 2026 and scrap an exemption which meant no inheritance tax was paid to pass down family farms.
Tractors descend on Westminster for ‘RIP British Farming’ protest
Good morning
Westminster is geareing up for a demonstration with thousands of farmers over Rachel Reeves’s Budget.
She announced sudden subsidy shifts agricultural property relief and busines property relief changes.
Thousands are expected to arrive in Whitehall for a rally this afternoon.
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